About Me
I am a creative and leadership professional with a passion for accessible and effective design. I am an advocate and practitioner of Agile methodologies; I believe that teams work best when they’re empowered to problem solve together and learn customer needs directly from the people they serve. I am also an adherent of Design Thinking, Total Quality Management, and Managerial Cybernetics as philosophies for delivering real value.
I have worked and volunteered for several non-profit and educational organizations, including The Evergreen State College, in both coaching/leadership and creative roles. To every job I bring a unique skillset that goes beyond strong visual communication skills; it includes the ability to gather research, then synthesize it, and then transform it into shared knowledge for the team.
My graphic design work focuses on clean layouts, type driven design, vector illustration and front end web development. I particularly adore the graphic art of the Bauhaus in Germany and Vkhutemas in Russia in the 1920s, and in America during the New Deal with the WPA, and corporate publications during the Cold War era, with clean modernist typography, respect for negative space, bold colors and a commitment to transmit clear meaning to the end-user.